Ace-Garageguy

Say da huh?

Pretty cool. Some of the best rust and weathering I've ever seen.

Owl pellets are sold as educational material.

Alec Baldwin's oopsie was ruled an "accident".

For the last time...EAT THE BUGS !!!

Can-can dancers usually get my attention.

I did. I like a man who loves his truck.

Stratosphere Tower in Vegas looks like it might be worth a visit.

Franklin Mint made a real beauty in 1/24, running around $100-$150 these days, including shipping. Sometimes you can find a damaged one for a lot less.

"Ours is not to reason why" say some; "phooey" says I.

Beautimus.

Finalized a deal for a little Ford 289 project. Already tanked, bored .060 over and assembled, but left to get a little wet. I'll go back through it, double check everything, shot-peen the rods, have the rotating bits balanced, and most likely do a mild port-match / polish job, cc the chambers. I haven't looked at any of the numbers to see exactly what it is yet, but whatever it is, it's worth what I'm paying. Unfortunately water got on some of the cam lobes and they're a little too pitted to trust with non-roller lifters, but I'd most likely have replaced the cam anyway.

I usually go for a hike at one of my favorite places on the last day of Summer, and I went today and took a few pix.

Saved this little guy from the dumpster, literally. Saw the water damaged box, could barely see through the yellowed plastic, but I figgered why not? Anyway, I got him home and he really isn't too bad a model. Some proportion problems, but I've seen a lot worse.

Sure would like to see some "if you do this, it'll look like this" photos. I don't have much use for unsubstantiated opinions, hearsay, "I think...", or "I use such-and-such" without pictures.

Sometimes you just have to shake your head and walk away.

Days of boredom or days of wonder: the choice is entirely up to you.

Or maybe dark blue...with white stripes.

What's the humidity? Duplicolor will sometimes "blush" if the humidity is high. See it the dull spots will polish up.

I've reported this before, assumed it'd been looked into. Nope. Just dumped all the photos in the first post of this thread. Guess I won't try THAT again.

I started this one same time back, to be Z-28 powered, and it will be (at some point there'll be two of these powered by American iron, as I have a few engine-less Ferraris), but I came across it again the other day, and had a rework of a Revellogram 1/24 Pontiac GTO engine on the bench, so I says to meself "self...why not a 3X2bbl GTO engine in a GTO? What could be more natural than that?" You have to remember that there was a time these things were just obsolete race-cars, and could be had with broken engines for pretty reasonable money. Not exactly cheap, but accessible for motivated normal humans. I actually worked for a guy who bought a RUNNING 550 Spyder for around 5000 bucks. Yeah...like how much is that worth today? So here we are. The original thread is below, for anybody who wants to see how we got to this point. I had to enlarge the old-school American mags to fit the fat 1/24 rubber I want to use, by wrapping the rims in .020" styrene. The engine is a 1/24 (supposedly) kinda blobular mess that's not real accurate, getting reworked to be more accurate at first glance. I like the trans, and the fact it has a 3X2 setup that should fill the Ferrari hood blister nicely. The blue one is a Revell 1/25 Poncho for reference. In her previous incarnation she never made it up on her wheels, but this time she has. Color will most likely be a light blue period GM metallic, maybe with white stripes. The dark blue hood is just a Tamiya paint test over a slightly crazed self-etching primer.

Game theory can be used as part of the decision making process preceding military operations.

Flake in model car paint is often way out of scale, and looks like something you'd see on an old-school dune buggy.

"Era of the Cat" wasn't an Al Stewart song.

Sure and begorrah, 'tis indeed the truth.